As of the 1st May, .kiwi domains can now be registered from the Lounge Network. For you or your customers this might be a great opportunity to own a piece of digital real estate that’s been unattainable under .co.nz. You might also be interested in protecting your intellectual property under the new TLD. 

We are one of only a handful offering .kiwi from it’s launch date of 1st May.  You are able to register .kiwi domains in your usual way from 1st May though our Domain Manager at www.domains.loungenetwork.co.nz

The .kiwi launch brings more choice and wider availability with a uniquely New Zealand feel.

Here’s to more choice for kiwi domains!

Our Upstream Providers will be migrating email users between hosting platforms, to balance load and provide an increase in performance.

This will be happening between Midnight 29/4/2014 (going in to 30/4/2014) and 3:00am 30/4/2014.

This will affect some of our customers as their mail will be unavailable during the move.

 Please bear with us while these changes are made, to improve overall email service.

On 7th April 2014 a patch was released to OpenSSL to fix a newly-discovered vulnerability to OpenSSL versions 1.0.1 through 1.0.1f. Nicknamed "Heartbleed" the weakness allows anyone on the Internet to steal information normally protected by SSL/TSL encryption. The bug compromises the secret keys used to identify the provider and encrypt traffic, allowing potential attackers to eavesdrop on communications and impersonate services and users.


We would like to assure customers on our New Zealand  Hosted  (hosted in Auckland) Web Hosting plans, that they are not affected by this.


For more information on the vulnerability please visit http://heartbleed.com/

Our upstream providers are applying patches to the CPanel servers, in response to the vulerability related to OpenSSL. Clients on our Auckland based non CPanel servers are not affected by this.

A vulnerability, called Heartbleed, was recently identified impacting many platforms that use OpenSSL, including the CPanel servers. Potentially millions of servers are affected by this. Nicknamed "Heartbleed" the weakness allows anyone on the Internet to steal information normally protected by SSL/TSL encryption. The bug compromises the secret keys used to identify the provider and encrypt traffic, allowing potential attackers to eavesdrop on communications and impersonate services and users.

As soon as our providers became aware of the issue,  they began working to patch it.

For more information on the vulnerabilty please visit http://heartbleed.com/

--UPDATE--

This update has now been completed.

As of the 1st May, .kiwi domains will be publicly available from the Lounge Network. For your customers this might be a great opportunity to own a piece of digital real estate that’s been unattainable under .co.nz. They might also be interested in protecting their intellectual property under the new TLD. Now is a great time to let them know about the upcoming opportunities.

The Lounge Network are protecting your businesses website from attackers..

At the Lounge Network we work hard to ensure your web site loads fast, is reliable and secure. This isn’t easy with more than 7,000 DDoS attacks occurring daily around the globe.

We are writing to advise that we have scheduled security patching that will require reboots for some of our mysql servers during the following period.

Start Time: 21/03/2014 00:00 NZDT
End Time: 21/03/2014 02:00 NZDT

The following database servers will be affected

mysql3.webhost.co.nz 

We thank you for your understanding while this working is completed and apologise for any inconvenience caused.

We have scheduled the installation of the latest Atmail software patches on Wednesday, 19/03/2014, early morning. The patches address mainly bug fixes and improvements.

Start Time: 19/03/2014 00:00 NZST

End Time: 19/03/2014 00:30 NZST